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Twenty five County Galway businesses will receive a New Year bonanza tonight when they will be honoured at the SCCUL Enterprise Awards. The awards ceremony which will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway tonight will celebrate enterprise in six different categories: Agriculture and Food, Arts Tourism & Sport, Business Services, Consumer Goods and Services, ICT and Social Enterprise.

The Mayor of the City of Galway, Councillor Dónal Lyons will officially launch the Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh awards at an ‘Information Evening’ which takes place on Tuesday next January 27 at 6.30p.m. in the Blake Suite of the Menlo Park Hotel.

Businesses participating in the fifth annual SCCUL Enterprise Awards and Business Expo will have the opportunity to attend a series of mentoring masterclasses on key business management issues in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway on Thursday January 29.

“A blight on the local landscape” and a haven for criminal activity and anti-social behaviour that need to be tackled and dealt with immediately.

New Year’s Eve is on the way, and there’s plenty of great live music planned for The Snug.

There’s plenty of great live music planned for The Snug between now and New Year’s Eve starting with Hoppy Bar Stars taking to the stage from 6-8pm on St Stephen’s night. They are followed by Toxic Twins at 10pm.

Local councillors had a chance to check on the progress of the Greenway cycleway project as works reached Moate last week.

Tuam will host National Cross Country Championships next February - the first time since 1999 a national event has been held in County Galway.

One of the mysteries of Galway is that curious phrase under the west facing clock on the Galway Camera Shop on William  Street, which says: Dublin Time. The fact that now the clock shows ordinary winter time only adds to the mystery. But not so long ago Galwegians, delighting in the longer days of sunlight than in the east of the country, and displaying an oddity that makes living in Galway a pleasure, set their clocks a full eleven and an half minutes behind Dublin. However, trains had to run to a standardised timetable otherwise transport chaos would ensue. The timetable was set at Dublin time (linked, like the rest of the civilised world, to Greenwich Mean Time), so  as Galwegians hurried to the station they could glance at the clock, and probably have to put on speed (perhaps Galway Time explains why most meetings here are usually 11 minutes late?).

The Toft family were associated with Eyre Square for many years since 1883 when they first brought a carnival there.